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BUSINESS Fact File: • Founded in London in 1851 • Over 14,700 staff in 92 countries • More than 328,000 professional users worldwide • Reuters Group 2 004 revenue: £2.8 billion • Constituent of FTSE100 index • Listed on LSE (RTR) and NASDAQ (RTRSY) are published in 19 languages. Today, Reuters supplies breaking news on politics, business, sports and entertainment to publishers and broadcasters worldwide. Trust is increasingly becoming a central issue in providing news. Digital technologies have made it easier than ever to become a news provider. However, to become a trustworthy news provider is much harder. Reuters News continues to be based on the Reuters values of independence, freedom from bias, speed and accuracy. 1 Reuters Consumer Services offers a personal multimedia news and information service to investors and business professional in the UK, US and Japan. The information is delivered on multiple platforms including online, mobile and interactive TV. Over one billion people see Reuters news every day. Reuters Foundation: Making a difference The Reuters Foundation is an educational and humanitarian trust funded by Reuters. It embraces especially educational, humanitarian and environmental projects, including the training of thousands of journalists from developing countries, and providing news to international disaster relief organisations. Reuters in Singapore Reuters operation in Singapore dates back to 1868 and is now 137 years here. Since then, the company’s operations have seen some tremendous growth. Powering the financial markets with: • Information on 40,000 companies • Financial information from 258 exchanges and OTC markets • Financial data updated at 8,000 times per second, and at peak time up to 23,000 times per second • The largest dealing network community with more than 17,000 foreign exchange and money market traders • The world’s largest international multimedia news and television agency network - 2,300 editorial staff, journalists, photographers and camera operators in 196 bureaux • Among the most read news sources on the Internet reaching millions in their offices, homes or on PDAs In addition to becoming a headquarters for Reuters in the region, Singapore is now also base to Reuters ASEAN channel business operations. Today, the company employs 650 staff in Singapore. Reuters Asia Pte Ltd, the Asia Pacific headquarters of Reuters, has been based in Singapore since 1997. In 1992, Reuters invested 43 million Singapore dollars in its Science Park building. Three years later, Reuters opened its Main Technical Centre, which is one of three global hubs that ensure customers have continued access to Reuters news and information. In 1997, Reuters Asia’s sphere of responsibilities expanded to encompass activities such as the World Editorial Desk. Reuters has a global network of 600 news photographers who deliver a world-class collection of news, sports and entertainment photography. In April 2005 Reuters chose Singapore as its base for the company’s Global Pictures Desk, at the Singapore Science Park. This pictures desk has grown from seven staff to 40 since then. The expansion enables Reuters to receive, process and transmit pictures to the world’s 1500 media companies around the clock from Singapore. Reuters supports local tertiary institutions and professional associations. In Singapore, the company has supplied about 50 million SGD in online information services to educational entities such as the Wealth Management Institute, National University of Singapore and the Polytechnics. To find out more about Reuters please visit www.reuters.com, or feel free to contact Erik de Boer via email on erik.deboer@reuters.com. 1 Adapted from: Tom Glocer - Reuters CEO, ‘The aim is truth’, FT.com site, Jul 12, 2004 5 Vol.15 • No. 7 • September 2005
BUSINESS An inspiring speech and an important message Stanford Report, June 14, 2005 ® ‘You’ve got to find what you love,’ Jobs says This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005. I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That’s it. No big deal. Just three stories. The first story is about connecting the dots. I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out? It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: “We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?” They said: “Of course.” My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college. And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents’ savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn’t see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn’t interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting. It wasn’t all romantic. I didn’t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends’rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example: Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn’t have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating. None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it’s likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later. Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. My second story is about love and loss. I was lucky - I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage 6 Vol.15 • No. 7 • September 2005
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